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Biohacked & Begging

And Other Stories (Nudge the Future)

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Pub Date 12 Apr 2019 | Archive Date 19 Apr 2019


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Near future Sci-fi at its best. Think Black Mirror meets Nova.

“Enter Stephen Oram: With Bradbury’s clear-sightedness and Pangborn’s wit.” – Simon Ings, New Scientist

“Oram sees what few other SF writers see – the perversity of our everyday relationships with new technologies – and thrusts that vision five minutes into the future.” Dan O’Hara, Editor of Extreme Metaphors: Selected interviews with J. G. Ballard, 1967 – 2008 

Immerse yourself in the future of biohacking and implants, genetic modification, blockchain micro-transactions and futuristic dating-apps with the author of Eating Robots, Stephen Oram.

Prodding and poking the possible in volume 2 of Nudge the Future, Oram starts with another flash fiction foray into the world of Unified Sentience and ends with virtual reality for babies and biohacked fish.

With sharpness and wit, these sci-fi shorts will grab your imagination and refuse to let go.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephen Oram writes social science fiction and is lead curator for near-future fiction at Virtual Futures. He enjoys working collaboratively with scientists and future-tech people - they do the science he does the fiction. He's been a hippie-punk, religious-squatter and an anarchist-bureaucrat; he thrives on contradictions. He is published in several anthologies and has two published novels, 'Quantum Confessions' and 'Fluence'. His collection of sci-fi shorts, 'Eating Robots and Other Stories', was described by the 'Morning Star' as one of the top radical works of fiction in 2017.

Near future Sci-fi at its best. Think Black Mirror meets Nova.

“Enter Stephen Oram: With Bradbury’s clear-sightedness and Pangborn’s wit.” – Simon Ings, New Scientist

“Oram sees what few other SF...


Advance Praise

"The more we surround ourselves with technology, the more uncanny our lives become. Enter Stephen Oram: with Bradbury’s clear-sightedness and Pangborn’s wit, he pulls ways to live out from under modernity’s "cacophony of crap." Simon Ings, Arts Editor, New Scientist

"Can humans remain 'more than digital, more than flesh' with detachable limbs, multiple ears, implants that can be hacked and nanobots that can be ingested? These thoroughly enjoyable and contestable futures explore the personal and political implications of fleshy and messy encounters with contentious technology and the epidemic of algorithms." Stelarc, Performance Artist


"There's a distinct flavour of literary Martianism to Biohacked & Begging. With the eye of a visitor from an alien planet, Oram sees what few other SF writers see – the perversity of our everyday relationships with new technologies – and thrusts that vision five minutes into the future." Dan O'Hara, editor of Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J. G. Ballard, 1967–2008

"The more we surround ourselves with technology, the more uncanny our lives become. Enter Stephen Oram: with Bradbury’s clear-sightedness and Pangborn’s wit, he pulls ways to live out from under...


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